What you have my friend is Hypoaspis miles which is a predatory mite. If you do have any fungus gnats, they won't be there long. These guys are a direct predator of the fungas gnat and they feed on the larva stage in your soil/medium.

Go to your local brew store and buy a pound or so of malted barley. Now take it home and grind up a handful in a coffee grinder until its a powder. Sprinkle over the top of your pots and water it in. Do the same thing about a week later.

Aw man, wish I checked OG earlier I totally would have done this experiment. My gnats were growing in number, so all of my babies got a spoon of neem meal and mosquito bits. I'll still give this a shot, but won't have definitive evidence for or against your secret gnat defense...

I'm thinking at this point maybe just yank your plants out and put them in water and sterilize your mix by throwing it in a turkey bag and cooking it about 150 degrees for 1/2 hour sorry your having so much issues there buddy! What does anyone else think of this method?

I would put it in a garbage bag and gas it with co2 until no oxygen left, tape it and let it sit for 24 hours. Zero oxygen zero life. I can't remember where i heard that but it makes sense and your stove stays clean.

I would put it in a garbage bag and gas it with co2 until no oxygen left, tape it and let it sit for 24 hours. Zero oxygen zero life. I can't remember where i heard that but it makes sense and your stove stays clean.

And it will work provided you hit at least 2000PPM for a minimum of an hour.

Wot r they then the big fly that was caught in the sticky trap looked like an adult fungus knat it's the first time the traps have caught something like that most the time it's just the very small black fly like things

@LED_Seedz stated above:" What you have my friend is Hypoaspis miles which is a predatory mite. If you do have any fungus gnats, they won't be there long. These guys are a direct predator of the fungas gnat and they feed on the larva stage in your soil/medium.

i honestly used nematodes one time then let my plants dry out really well and never saw another fungus gnat again... but now i have thrips so i'm going to order more nematodes, except i'm pretty sure my other treatments will kill nematodes too soo maybe not... says kills spider mites on contact so i'm hoping it kills thrips too